Dear Colleagues,
We at Indian Statistical Institute Kolkata, are trying to create a Face
database for "normal" illumination conditions. Can someone help us
understand, how should the light sources be placed, etc, when we take
subject pictures -in short, the procedure.
best
Garga Chatterjee
Assistant Professor
Indian Statistical Institute
Kolkata
[Apologies for cross-postings]
Call for papers
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IEEE International Conference on Identity, Security and Behavior Analysis
(ISBA 2017)
Location: New Delhi, India
Dates: February 22-24 2017
http://ieee-biometrics.org/isba2017/
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ISBA is a unique conference series initiated by the IEEE Biometrics Council
and its third edition will be held in New Delhi, India. This conference is
intended to meet the emerging need for a winter meeting, especially for the
Asian participants where the introduction of large scale biometrics
programs have attracted significant increase in research and development
efforts. It will be a forum that brings together experts in biometrics,
security, and human behavior to consider research issues and solutions that
are robust, comprehensive, and broader than currently considered in each of
these individual research areas. This conference serves to provide a new
form for such broad areas defining human side of security and user behavior
as well as social influence in the biometrics security.
Topics of interest include, but are not limited to:
• Anti-Spoofing, Behavioral Biometrics, Biometric System Evaluation,
Biometrics in Law Enforcement, Cybercrime
• De-identification, Detection and Tracking, Device Identification, Digital
Forensics
• Human Behavior Analysis, Human Activity Understanding, Identity
Management, Information Security, Person Re-identification
• Performance Evaluation, Privacy-preserving Computing, Predictive
Analytics, Single and Multi-modal Biometrics
• Social Biometrics, Social and Criminal Network Inference, Surveillance
Identification, Template Protection and Data Privacy
• Usability and Performance, User-centric Biometric Security
Submitted papers may not be accepted or under review elsewhere. Submissions
may be up to eight pages in conference format (double blind reviewing).
Papers accepted and presented at ISBA 2017 will be published in conference
proceedings and made available in IEEE Xplore library.
Important dates
Submission deadline: October 10, 2016
Decision to authors: December 10, 2016
Camera ready submission: December 20, 2016
Conference: February 22-24, 2017
General Chair
Rama Chellappa (University of Maryland, USA)
General Co-chairs
Ajay Kumar (PolyU, Hongkong)
Richa Singh (IIIT-Delhi, India)
Program Co-chairs
M. Ehsan Hoque (University of Rochester, USA)
Nitesh Saxena (University of Alabama at Birmingham, USA)
Vishal M. Patel (Rutgers University, USA)
Mayank Vatsa (IIIT-Delhi, India)
Publication Chair
Soma Biswas (Indian Institute of Science, India)
Finance Chair
Angshul Majumdar (IIIT-D, India)
Publicity Chair
Abhinav Dhall (University of Waterloo, Canada)
Industry Liaison
Sameer Shah (HCL, India)
http://ieee-biometrics.org/isba2017/
Applications are welcomed for two researcher positions at doctoral or postdoctoral level at the Max Planck Institute for Human Cognitive and Brain Sciences (MPI-CBS) in Leipzig, Germany, in the Neural Mechanisms of Human Communication group led by Katharina von Kriegstein.
PhD student or Postdoctoral Position in Neuroscience of Developmental Dyslexia:
The objective of the research project is to use functional and structural magnetic resonance imaging (MRI) and behavioural intervention training to understand the role of auditory and visual sensory processing in populations with developmental dyslexia. Further information on the position can be found here: http://www.cbs.mpg.de/489916/job_full_offer_10626437?c=7390
PhD student or Postdoctoral position in Neuroscience of Autism Spectrum Disorder:
The objective of the research project is to use high-resolution functional and structural magnetic resonance imaging (MRI) and behavioural tests to understand the role of auditory and visual sensory processing in populations with Autism Spectrum Disorder. Further information on the position can be found here: http://www.cbs.mpg.de/490195/job_full_offer_10626459?c=7390
Both positions are funded by an ERC-Consolidator grant.
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Katharina von Kriegstein
Max Planck Research Group Leader
Max Planck Institute for Human Cognitive and Brain Sciences
Stephanstr. 1A, 04103 Leipzig, Germany
Professor of Cognitive and Clinical Neuroscience
Humboldt University of Berlin
Rudower Chaussee 18, 12489 Berlin, Germany
Phone +49 (0) 341-9940-2476
Fax +49 (0) 341-9940-2448
http://www.cbs.mpg.de/independent-research-groups/human-communication
Dear all,
we're searching for a face database with stimuli including ideally both
- a) faces from the Middle East/ Oriental looking faces and
- b) faces from Western society / Occidental looking faces.
Some more charachteristics that might be helpfull for us:
- more than 20 males & 20 females in each group a) and b)
- standardized photo-sets with minimal variation of background and
orientations
- neutral expression and/or natural variation of emotion and/or
different emotions for each face
- licence agreement allowing the use for non-profit academic research
- the actual origin (Occidental/ Oriental) of the people showed in the
photos
- any further data on face characteristics, external face ratings or
characteristics of the targets shown would be great (albeit not a
prerequisite)
Within a project on the psychology of forced migration (University of
Muenster, Germany; Prof. Mitja Back), we're planning to examine
personality perceptions based on photos of Oriental and Occidental
faces. Therefore we're glad for every idea concerning a face database
including the above characteristics.
Thanks in advance and best regards,
Joscha Stecker
Dear Members of the mailing list,
I am about to start a project on face recognition in humans, and a part of this project requires to create different average faces (variation according to age and ethnic group).
In order to increase the representativity of our average faces, I am looking for databases of faces with known characteristics (at least date of birth of the participant and date of picture taken, as well as age and ethnic group). Ideally, the pictures would have been taken in front of a uniform background.
Many thanks in advance for your kind help,
Christophe Bousquet
Sent from [ProtonMail](https://protonmail.ch), encrypted email based in Switzerland.
Apologies for multiple postings
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Third Workshop on Computer Vision for Affective Computing (CV4AC)
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Asian Conference on Computer Vision (ACCV) 2016, Taiwan
https://sites.google.com/site/thirdcv4ac/
Affective computing deals with analyzing the affect using different
modalities. Computer vision undoubtedly is one of the primary modalities in
affective computing. Given the recent advancement in computer vision areas
such as face and facial parts detection, body parts detection and scene
analysis, it has opened up avenues for analyzing the affective state of
subjects and the affect conveyed by scenes. This workshop invites
researchers to submit their original work proposing methods inferring
affect using computer vision. The workshop focusses on the `in the wild'
aspect of affect recognition.
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Scope of the papers:
Image and Video based facial expression analysis
Emotion recognition in the wild
Pose estimation for affect analysis
Scene recognition for affect analysis
Gesture recognition for affect analysis
Gaze and attention for affect analysis
Saliency detection for affect analysis
Activity recognition for affect analysis
Fiducial points detection
Temporal models for face analysis
Spontaneous affect databases
Arts and media
Applications in entertainment, healthcare and games
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Important dates
Paper submission: August 15
Acceptance notice: September 10
Camera read due: September 17
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Organisers
Abhinav Dhall, University of Waterloo
Roland Goecke, University of Canberra/Australian National University
O. V. Ramana Murthy , Amrita Vishwa Vidyapeetham, India
Jesse Hoey, University of Waterloo
Nicu Sebe, University of Trento
For any queries please contact:
abhinav.dhall(a)uwaterloo.ca
[Apologies for cross-postings]
Conference announcement
-----------------------------------------------
IEEE International Conference on Identity, Security and Behavior Analysis
(ISBA 2017)
Location: New Delhi, India
Dates: February 23-24 2017
http://ieee-biometrics.org/isba2017/
-----------------------------------------------
ISBA is a unique conference series initiated by the IEEE Biometrics Council
and its third edition will be held in New Delhi, India. This conference is
intended to meet the emerging need for a winter meeting, especially for the
Asian participants where the introduction of large scale biometrics
programs have attracted significant increase in research and development
efforts. It will be a forum that brings together experts in biometrics,
security, and human behavior to consider research issues and solutions that
are robust, comprehensive, and broader than currently considered in each of
these individual research areas. This conference serves to provide a new
form for such broad areas defining human side of security and user behavior
as well as social influence in the biometrics security.
Topics of interest include, but are not limited to:
• Anti-Spoofing, Behavioral Biometrics, Biometric System Evaluation,
Biometrics in Law Enforcement, Cybercrime
• De-identification, Detection and Tracking, Device Identification, Digital
Forensics
• Human Behavior Analysis, Human Activity Understanding, Identity
Management, Information Security, Person Re-identification
• Performance Evaluation, Privacy-preserving Computing, Predictive
Analytics, Single and Multi-modal Biometrics
• Social Biometrics, Social and Criminal Network Inference, Surveillance
Identification, Template Protection and Data Privacy
• Usability and Performance, User-centric Biometric Security
Submitted papers may not be accepted or under review elsewhere. Submissions
may be up to eight pages in conference format (double blind reviewing).
Papers accepted and presented at ISBA 2017 will be published in conference
proceedings and made available in IEEE Xplore library.
Important dates
Submission deadline: October 10, 2016
Decision to authors: December 10, 2016
Camera ready submission: December 20, 2016
Conference: February 23-24, 2017
General Chair
Rama Chellappa (University of Maryland, USA)
General Co-chairs
Ajay Kumar (PolyU, Hongkong)
Richa Singh (IIIT-Delhi, India)
Program Co-chairs
M. Ehsan Hoque (University of Rochester, USA)
Nitesh Saxena (University of Alabama at Birmingham, USA)
Vishal M. Patel (Rutgers University, USA)
Mayank Vatsa (IIIT-Delhi, India)
Publication Chair
Soma Biswas (Indian Institute of Science, India)
Finance Chair
Angshul Majumdar (IIIT-D, India)
Publicity Chair
Abhinav Dhall (University of Waterloo, Canada)
Industry Liaison
Sameer Shah (HCL, India)
http://ieee-biometrics.org/isba2017/
Dear list:
A Funded PhD position is available with Dr Natalie Butcher (Teesside University, UK) on a project entitled: differences in processing and recognising static and moving faces. The position is one of 25 Graduate Tutor roles which will support the post holder to study for a PhD whilst gaining teaching experience. These posts are salaried for up to 4 years (£20,989 - £25,023) and all associated fees are also covered as part of the role.
The proposed research seeks to investigate the individual differences factors that influence the extent to which a viewer benefits from the availability of facial motion information when learning and recognising faces. The work will include execution of experimental psychological studies to explore the relationship between a range of individual differences factors and the motion advantage, within typical and atypical populations.
Deadline for application: July 31, 2016
If you know of any suitable candidates who are interested in conducting a PhD in this field can you please consider sharing this information with them.
For more information about the graduate tutor role and how to apply see: https://recruitment.tees.ac.uk/itrentlive_webrecruitment/wrd/run/etrec107gf… For more information about the range of projects graduate tutors can select their PhD topic from including this project see: http://www.tees.ac.uk/sections/research/projects2.cfm For informal enquiries, please feel free to contact me by email (n.butcher(a)tees.ac.uk) Best wishes, Natalie
Dr Natalie Butcher
Senior Lecturer in Psychology
School of Social Sciences,
Business & Law
Teesside University
TS13BX
Tel: +44(0)1642 342385
Twitter: @TeesPysch
@Dr_N_Butcher
Postdoctoral Position, Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania, USA
Applications are invited for an NIH funded postdoctoral position combining eye tracking and intracranial EEG recordings in humans to study the neural basis of face recognition, object recognition, and social and affective perception, at the University of Pittsburgh, USA.
The research will focus on understanding the dynamic neural code that underlies the recognition of faces, bodies, objects, facial expressions, and other social and affective stimuli and how this information guides, and is guided by, eye movements. Of particular interest is how this information is coded in interactive neural circuits at the level of large-scale brain networks. The neural data will primarily be local field potentials/ event related potential from intracranial surface electrodes (electrocorticography, ECoG), cortical depth electrodes, and subcortical depth electrodes in humans in conjunction with eye tracking. There is also the potential for studies involving direct cortical stimulation to assess how neural modulation alters visual perception.
The ideal applicant would hold a Ph.D. in Neuroscience, Psychology, Computer Science, Mathematics, Statistics, Engineering or a related field. Strong technical, computational, and statistical skills are required. Experience with combining eye tracking and electrophysiological data is required (for example, scalp EEG and eye tracking). Applicants should have a strong track record of publication.
Pittsburgh is consistently ranked the most livable city in America and the neuroscientific community here, particularly at the University of Pittsburgh and Carnegie Mellon University, is both very strong and collaborative.
Interested applicants should send a letter of interest, a CV, and the names and contact information for 3 researchers who can provide a recommendation. For further information or to submit an application, please contact Avniel Ghuman, Ph.D. at ghumana(a)upmc.edu and see our website at www.lcnd.pitt.edu<http://www.lcnd.pitt.edu>
Apologies for cross-postings
Call for challenge participation
Fourth Emotion Recognition in the Wild (EmotiW) Challenge 2016
@ ACM International Conference on Multimodal Interaction 2016, Tokyo
https://sites.google.com/site/emotiw2016/
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The Emotion Recognition in the Wild 2016 Challenge consists of multimodal
classification challenges, which mimics real-world conditions.
Traditionally, emotion recognition has been performed on laboratory
controlled data. While undoubtedly worthwhile at the time, such lab
controlled data poorly represents the environment and conditions faced in
real-world situations. With the increase in the number of video clips
online, it is worthwhile to explore the performance of emotion recognition
methods that work ‘in the wild’. There are two sub-challenges: audio-video
based emotion recognition in videos and group-level emotion recognition in
the images (new).
Timeline:
Train and val data available: shared!
Test data available: 30th June 2016
Last date for uploading the results: 15th July 2016
Paper submission deadline: 25th July 2016
Notification of acceptance: 25th August 2016
Camera-ready: September 2016
Organisers
Abhinav Dhall, Roland Goecke, Jyoti Joshi and Tom Gedeon
Contact
emotiw2014(a)gmail.com